For his Fifty and Fifty project, Dan Cassaro, asked fifty US designers to each illustrate their state's motto. He loaded a different design onto the site each week, with the aim of creating a designer's atlas of the United States.

Above: Florida by Two Arms Inc.

The full gallery is now online. The mottos by themselves are a curious mixture: some are relics from another time (Massachusetts's "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty"), some still resonate today (South Carolina's "While I breathe, I hope") and some sound like tourist promotions for the delights of their states: Michigan informs you, "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you."

The illustrators have responded in a similarly diverse manner to their brief. Zach Graham shows postage stamp style depictions of some of Arkansas's attractions, while Bryan Minnach plays on the potential humour of West Virginia's motto "Mountaineers are always free". Others use the challenge to contrast the aspiration of the states against their history - for example, Oliver Munday's depiction of Washington DC's ‘Justice for All', imposes the motto over the words "Cash for Gold" and Katie Lee's take on Nevada's "All for our country"
lays the words over an image of a Native American.

Offered as an alternative take on the United States, it is satisfying to see the diversity of ideas, images and words offered in response to one simple idea.

Evgenia Barinova has such a distinctive way of illustrating, you could spend an entire career cultivating something close to her style.

Her stylized figures are a strong feature of her work, as is her colour palette and a sense of playfulness.

Evgenia was born in Moscow and moved to England to complete a BA in Illustration. Her work is really varied, and I particularly love the banners she created in conjunction with arts agency YCN based around the theme of healthy living.

Her work can currently been seen amongst the fifty finalists chosen to exhibit at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, as part of the Association of Illustrators River Thames competition.

You can also see Evgenia's work in oh comely Issue 6, where she illustrated our good luck investigation. 

Do you ever see something that's made for children but makes you want to be a toddler again, just so you can enjoy it? If you're not sure what I mean, take a look at the Lucky Boy Sunday designs. These imaginative, kooky, fantastic, knitted creatures are so excellent I'm (almost) not ashamed to admit I'd quite like one for myself.

How often do you visit an art exhibition without knowing whose work you're looking at? Whenever I find myself in this situation, I'll often consult the label beside the painting, sculpture or whatever. This old habit was undermined by a small exhibition at the V&A a while ago called Fakes and Forgeries. If you were just passing by, you'd have thought it was a display of Chagall drawings and paintings by Picasso. In actuality, all the works were on loan from the Metrolpolican Police's caverous, and very secret, collection of forged art works. All the pieces on display were forgeries; all their makers were convicted criminals.

For a quite different game of 'spot the artist', head to the Royal College of Art SECRET which opens this Friday.

This annual show is of 2,500 postcards, all of which are for sale priced at £45. Money from the sale goes to fund RCA student bursaries. And the secret? The names of the artists are concealed. But what's not been kept secret, is that Tracey Emin and Peter Blake have contributed postcards as well as other leading artists, Royal College students and graduates. If you know what to look for, you could buy an expensive piece of contemporary art for a cheap-ish price, or just enjoy the large-scale guessing game. Happy hunting.

Eagle-eyed readers of issue two would have noticed that we are running a disposable camera project. Plan part one: Get a bunch of disposable cameras, arm our readers with them, and send them out into the big wide world. Part two: See what happens!

Well, consider part one accomplished - so many of you wrote to us asking for cameras that we've now completely run out. Just to be fair, we picked our happy snappers at random.

All the disposable cameras are now whizzing their way across the country, so all we have to do is wait and see what comes back. You'll be able to see the results in our next issue, out on October 21st.

Well folks, it's finally happened - the launch of Issue #1 of Oh Comely magazine is tonight. We're pretty excited about this and we hope you are too. It's all happening at Pure Groove Records from 7:30pm tonight (Wednesday).

We've been painting these bags in the park. They're our limited edition goodie bags, so come down early to get your hands on one. Then grab yourself a complimentary cupcake, hit the bar and settle in for the marvellous tunes courtesy of Foxx Bandits and DJs Planet Earth and The Atrocitator (The Quietus).

Entry is free. Hope to see you there.

Have a flick through our new illustrations gallery. It's got all the illustrated portraits from the first issue, plus a few that might be appearing in the next. They range from skillful to cute to downright eccentric (I'm looking at you, Slagsmalsklubben).